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Comment by undeadfred

The next upgrade to the level 70 Arena 2-H caster's staff, to be released with patch 2.3 (or whenever Arena Season 3 begins). This staff is an upgrade from Merciless Gladiator's War Staff, and will sell for 3,750 arena points.

edit: as of S4 this staff costs 3000 Arena Points and a Personal and Team Arena Rating of 1800.

Comment by xenjuarn

This is also a very nice PvE tool. Better than Kael's staff "Nexus Key" (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=29988) hands down. I also think PvE wise this is better than spellblade and an offhand from some boss.

But all in all this is a pvp staff with lots of stats on it. You may want to go for other versoin of this staff if you are SP or lock or already hit capped.

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Comment by BenMS

As with all Season Three weapons, not only will you need the Arena Points to purchase, but if you do not have an Arena Rating of at least 1850 on one of your teams, you won't be able to but them

Comment by abcd

latest update from patch 2.3, this cost 3750 arena points, if you need to find out how many arena points you'll earn this week or what team rating you need for 3750arena points, there is a great Arena Calculator that can do both ways, converting rating->points and points->rating, the calculator is located at: http://www.ratingarenapoints.com

Comment by Ishtar

From Season 1, for those that are making the big jump+3.5 Dps+14 Stam+11 Int+7 Hit+10 Crit+4 Res+48 dmg

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Comment by Sundadar

Its an awsome staff and it doesnt cost to much, but still, it's up to you whether this is worth it to get, and if you think it's too difficult, well...you can always take the easy route and get it fast at: http://www.yehforgames.com/wow/arena/

Comment by Geronin

All armor and weapons that require a personal rating now also require your team to have atleast same rating in order to buy.

Comment by ANimouz

This is a tremendous pve staff. Honestly Zhar'doom pail in comparison to this. It mass ammount of stats , crit , hit rating and damage make this an ultimate choise until u get Tempest of Chaos + Cronicle of Dark Secrets.

Comment by Ceosir

Now those 28 spell hit rating may seem like a big deal, but if you are already hit capped (203 without any talents) it's worthless, and If you're at Kael, you should, and BE, hit capped already.

Pretty good staff for all casters :)

Comment by arcanum

Battle Staff has +2.22% Chance to hit.

War Staff has -35 Enemy resistance.

You probably won't need -35 resistance unless your fighting a warlock / his pet, but this leads to another point, if your personal + team ratings over 1850 then you can expect to fight alot of warlocks. (lets be honest now, they do ridiculously well in PvP).

Take into consideration before deciding:- Which bracket you play the most.- Which class composition is the most common in your most played Bracket, for your battlegroup.

For Example in 5's arena i'm generally fighting your generic Mage, Warrior, Warlock, Pally, Priest (or a comp similair) team. so spell hit is probably the best all around choice, considering that comp won't have much resistances ( Apart from the warlock). Then again in 2's arena at the higher rating i'm generally fighting Druid + Warlock or Druid + Warrior, both will have MotW and the warlock will already have high self buffed resistance, this is where i believe War staff shines.

Again, it's all up to the player, and the situations you most commonly come across.

* Written from a Mage's PoV* This comment if it helped you or someone you know.

Comment by wrathofcow

This might seem like a silly question, but does anyone know which particular staff or MH/OH combo is the absolute best strictly in terms of pvp for a mage?

Comment by Shuror

It might not be easy to notice, but this weapon has had its attack speed decreased from 3,00 to 2,00 in patch 2.4.

The likely intent of this change is to make destroying totems easier. The difference between the one handed caster weapons and this staff were high in that regard.

Comment by wowgiver

Anyone know if there is a pve version of this? not talking about spec.

I remember seeing a blue version of S1 staff a few weeks back so I'm curious.

Comment by Jesterklown

Darth maul's lightsaber anyone?

Comment by Jesterklown

Darth maul's lightsaber anyone?

Comment by catspats31

As of June 24, 2008, this weapon, along with other Season 3 weapons, now have a 15% discount and 50 point reduced rating requirement for both personal and team arena ratings. The price for this weapon should be around 3188 arena points, and 1800 personal and team arena rating requirement.